Back To The Fusion - Part X

After reading Adam Lehman's recent post about the Modern age of ColdFusion, I have to say that I am super excited about the next release of ColdFusion. All signs indicate that it's gonna be huge; and, based on the versions that have already been released - the bar has been set pretty high. I wanted to take a moment and express my joy, graphically:

But when is this block-buster coming out???? I'm on the edge of my seat!

Well, I am not bound by an NDA (because I have nothing to disclose), and know, as in know, nothing about the next release and its new features. That said, here's my stab at the new features in ColdFusion X:

First, I'd bet it ends up being Adobe's way of keeping LiveCycle a really expensive enterprise server product, while at the same time opening up much of the functionality of the LiveCycle server family up to smaller businesses.

Plus, due to its low adoption and recent lack of Adobe love, I'd bet on a total rewrite of CFReport and the report builder.

Finally, as they have become a sponsor of jQuery, I'd bet there will be a ton of integration there too.

I guess we will all see sooner or later...hope it is not as much later, as it has been hinted.

I don't know much about CFReport of LiveCycle - I haven't used either of them. If they did something cool, it would be a nice chance to dig in.

@Rafael,

Ha ha, word up :) We'd need to get new head-gear though. Finally, ColdFusion would be able to read my thoughts.

@John, @Bret,

CFC == "ColdFusion Flux Capacitor" ??? Now we're talking!

@Mark,

If you think about it, ColdFusion is sort of like that whistle that allows you to transport from world to world - only, we're transporting form the start of a project to the completion of a project in record time ;)

I'm interested to see what CFX has to offer. Gotta say too, Ben, that for the last couple of issues I've had with CF, when doing Google searches on the problem at hand, not only did your site come up first, but DIRECTLY addressed the EXACT same issue I had.

Recently, we just installed Mod Rewrite into our IIS servers and had the issue with the CFIMAGE's CFFileServlet path. Sure enough adding a custom rule resolved it.

Nadel is quickly becoming a name synonymous with ColdFusion. Keep up the good work.